Lilia Prado

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.

Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort...

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.

Mexican feature film

Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young...

Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los...

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love....

Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband.

Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.

Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.

After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama,...

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.

Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.

Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.

Fictional biography of a career criminal.

Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself...

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part...

A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "sexy" girl.

Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair.

Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.

Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a...

Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no...

Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.

Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.

Hero vs bad-guy western.

Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless...

Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is...

Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come...

Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.

Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.

Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island.

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.

Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.

Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire...

Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.

Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.

Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the...

Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be...

Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and...

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.

Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers....

Venice Film Festival 1948

"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The...

Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino.

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In...

After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted...

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than...

Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back...

Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy.

Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all...

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with...

The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have...

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the...